Dagmar Hülsenberg (née Hinz; born 2 December 1940, in Sonneberg) is a German materials scientist and university professor.

[3] Dagmar Hinz was born soon after the start of the Second World War in Sonneberg, a small town in the centre of southern Germany, located between Würzburg and Leipzig.

[2] In 1960, with support from her boss at the ceramics factory, she was able to obtain a place at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology where she studied Silicate Metallurgy, emerging with a degree in 1965.

She alerted him to an important inconsistency in the text which he was obliged to discuss with his co-author, the Dresden Economics Professor Otto Gallenmüller.

One upshot of the ensuing discussions was that Dagmar Hülsenberg hurriedly mastered relevant portions of the Economics syllabus and, in 1969, obtained a doctorate from Freiberg University in Economics for a dissertation entitled "Determining an optimal number of cost centres and cost objects, with particular attention to error aggregation" [3][4] Just a year later, in 1970, she received a second doctorate, this time in Material Sciences: her dissertation on this occasion was entitled "High-temperature deformation of heterogeneous materials, illustrated using fire-resistant chamotte (fire clay)"[3][5] Publications (selection)[3] In 1970, she moved to the Ministerium für Leichtindustrie [de] (Ministry of light industry) and later to the Ministerium für Glas- und Keramikindustrie [de] (Ministry for the glass and ceramics industries) where she was involved in preparing the national plan for science and technology (Plan für Wissenschaft und Technik).